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405 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
Midtown East
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Le Perigord Details
Dining Style:
Casual Elegant
(212) 755-6244
Hours of Operation:
Lunch: Monday - Friday: 12:00pm - 3:00pm;
Dinner: Monday - Sunday 5:30pm - 10:00pm
Payment Options:
AMEX, Diners Club, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
Executive Chef:
Joel Benjamin
Dress Code:
Smart Casual
Accepts Walk-Ins:
Additional Details:
Banquet/Private Rooms, Beer, Full Bar, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Personal wines welcome, Personal wines welcome (corkage fee applies), Private Room, Wheelchair Access, Wine
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1st Avenue
A word from Le Perigord
At 49 years old, Le Perigord features classic French cuisine in an elegant setting. Le Perigord just renovated the whole restaurant in 2011, don't forget to come in and take a look at our beautiful new decor.The New York Times calls it "a French restaurant the way French restaurants used to be;"
complete with starched white linen tablecloths and exemplary service from wait staff in tuxedos. In addition to tableside service of Dover sole, duck a l'orange and rack of lamb, the traditional fare also includes such staples as individual beef Wellington, quenelles of pike, coquilles St Jacques and kidneys in mustard sauce, and don't forget to leave room for the fabulous soufflés and the legendary "temptation trolley" of desserts which always includes such timeless favorites as tarte Tatin, chocolate mousse and floating islands. The extensive, award-wining wine list includes a fine selection of both old & recent vintages, all at sensible prices.
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Diner Reviews
I was trying to impress my
girlfriend so I brought her here for our monthly date night, and she was blown away. That of course means, I was blown away too, lol. Unlike a lot of other places, they have an option of doing a prix fixe or ordering a la carte. We chose to order a la carte. everything was super good, but I must say, the lobster bisque and the veal medallions were remarkable. The bisque was a perfect consistency and so rich, but not so heavy that I didn't want my entree. The veal medallions were tender and had that perfect veal game balance to them. "
Dined on 4/16/2014
There is no where in NYC that
matches Le Perigord for style or quality. Everything about it is top of the class!"
Dined on 4/13/2014
Classic french dining as it used
to be 30 years ago. Old style with an adept chef in the kitchen. Brings back the memories of haute cuisine as it used to be. A wonderful evening ."
Dined on 4/12/2014
Beautiful flowers, friendly French
owner who has been there for 50 yrs, lovely service, delicious baguettes, great cold appetizer plate (a meal in itself), excellent duck and lamb, a don't-miss-it pear tart. Not redone in cold, steely, noisy-music style. In other words, doesn't cater to the 20s/30s set, thank goodness."
Dined on 4/4/2014
This was my second time dining
here. I had the pike quenelles as an appetizer and veal with morel mushroom sauce as my entree. Both dishes were excellent. The server also brought me a few extras such as amuse bouche and mini dessert since I was too full to order a regular dessert. I ordered a glass of red Cote du Rhone to have with the veal but was offered a half-glass of a white wine to have with the fish appetizer. I turned it down and just had water with the first course but appreciated the offer. That shows a thoughtfulness that is not always demonstrated at a restaurant. This restaurant has a long history of gracious dining and caters to an older clientele but provides a relaxed and satisfying dining experience."
Dined on 4/6/2014
My wife and I visited Perigord
after a long absence to celebrate her birthday. Food Superb! We both had the duck which I highly recommend. The service was excellent; the wines top notch and the ambiance was up to our expectations; although somewhat pricey we will return again."
Dined on 4/4/2014
Been coming here for years.
Imagine! Fabulous food and you can have a conversation! The dessert cart is to die for. Floating island and chocolate mousse or soufflés? What's not to love? Heartily recommend."
Dined on 3/29/2014
le perigord continues to provide
an outstanding dining experience."
Dined on 3/28/2014
Ate at this resturant during
resturant week and the food,service and ambience was superb. Would certainly recommend this resturant and would definitely go back."
Dined on 3/5/2014
one of the last old world French
cuisine restaurants with classic dishes such as crispy duck, soufflé, foie grai"
Dined on 3/22/2014
The halibut seemed to melt in my
mouth. How can you prepare a meaty fish to be so incredibly tender and tasty? I don't know, but Le Perigord does."
Dined on 3/22/2014
Everything we ordered was great.
The wine by the glass was a very generous pour. It was a mature crowd. Seeing suits and ties was refreshing."
Dined on 3/8/2014
One of the very few classic French
reataurants left in NYC. The buffet froid to start is a wonderful combination of pate, celeri remoulade, shrimp, etc. Duck, Dover sole, beef Wellington, all beautifully prepared. The dessert cart is a wonder. So hard to make choice."
Dined on 3/8/2014
A meal at Perigord takes one back,
in a very good way, to the menus and service of long ago. The menu is familiar, the service is attentive without being intrusive, the table flowers and napery are fresh, the conversation is subdued, and the food is plentiful and perfectly prepared/presented. Who could ask for more!"
Dined on 3/4/2014
Very nice. Beautiful atmosphere
with enough sophistication but not "snobbish". Great food"
Dined on 3/6/2014
Went for Rest Week. Good varied
selection. Everything was wonderful. 3 appetizers and 3 main courses were uniformly delicious. Fruit tart desert was a treat. Even the bread was very good. Service professional and friendly."
Dined on 3/7/2014
We went for dinner here as part of
restaurant week and had a great food! We will definitely be coming back to try many of the other items listed on the menu."
Dined on 3/7/2014
great old fashioned french
restaurant. if you want a taste of what rap table service is - go here!"
Dined on 3/7/2014
I went for dinner during NY
Restaurant Week. I ordered the scallops, which were good. The service was OK. I think I was expecting more--a little disappointed."
Dined on 2/28/2014
Enjoyed Restaurant Week menu - I
had scallops, which were the best I've ever had, making me forget all about the undercooked and strangely bland pea soup that preceded it. My companion also disliked the soup, it definitely needs work, but he liked his beef bourgnion fine. He also enjoyed mousse for dessert, I had the floating island which was way too sweet and cloying. Good coffee followed, excellent service."
Dined on 3/4/2014
No other restaurant in the world
is more reliable than le Perigord. Maitre d's, waiters were (almost) born there and most likely will die serving the very same (great) dishes since the last century (maybe not but it feels like it). Memories of "well rewarded" romantic dinners, anniversaries, kids' birthdays, commencement parties and friends'gatherings vividly come back just by looking at the same tables I was year after year, or was it yesterday? Go there, truly enjoy the great food and start building your own memories one by one, meal by meal. You'll not be desappointed, I guaranty it."
Dined on 3/4/2014
I had a lovely experience having
dinner there. The food was very good and so was the service. Great overall!"
Dined on 3/3/2014
We went for restaurant week. The
service was excellent and the food was very good --it just felt a little "mass produced" because it came out very quickly. The butternutsquash soup was a bit bland. The "chef's pate" was more of a quiche--it was very tasty but they served it warm--not hot. Not sure if that was what they were going for since I overheard the table next to us complain that it was not hot."
Dined on 3/2/2014
Very authentic and good quality
French cuisine. 2 things don't match: the espresso is better than in France and the service is a lot more friendly ;-))."
Dined on 3/2/2014
Service was excellent. Food was
scrumptious. Can't wait to go back!"
Dined on 2/28/2014
This is an old-fashioned French
restaurant. The food is excellent, the salmon was cooked perfectly. Since the people at the next table were talking in French it felt almost like eating in Paris."
Dined on 2/28/2014
The atmosphere is exquisite. The
service and the food are impeccable!"
Dined on 2/28/2014
Foods good service is good but not
fit young people"
Dined on 2/27/2014
Enjoyed dining in this lovely
restaurant. Food was great, as well as service. Salmon in saffron sauce was delicious."
Dined on 2/26/2014
We love coming here. Restaurant
week makes this an affordable and wonderful dining experience"
Dined on 2/26/2014
Don't quite know what happened at
lunch but service was missing at every level, from no-one letting my guest knowthat I had called and would be ten minutes late, to no-one taking me to the table and no-one pulling out the table at the too- tight banquette, to having to ask three people for mustard, one of whom didn't understand what I even meant, all this a big minus."
Dined on 2/25/2014
Love the food and the service.
From the moment I arrived, the staff were just so hospitable! Using the restaurant week menu, I was able to pick a super yummy classic French dish. Since it was a pre fix, value was amazing. Wine list for the enthusiast is great. You can pick from a range that goes from budget friendly to wine connoisseur level. The reviews specifically commended the place's French looking ambiance but I was not too taken by it. For food, wine and service, would go back anytime."
Dined on 2/24/2014
My husband and I dined at Le
Perigord on Saturday night. We had not been to the restaurant for many years--mistake! The food was wonderful. We both had the duck and it was incredible. The restaurant is lovely and the whole experience made for a perfect evening. We will return very soon."
Dined on 2/22/2014
We wanted a nice romantic
traditional French restaurant and Le Perigord met all our expectation. The food was amazing, very classical French with a true admiration for flavours. From appetizers to the entrees and most important the wine list, all I can say is bravo to Monsieur Georges."
Dined on 2/22/2014
We had a great dinner at Le
Perigord for restaurant week. The servers were gracious (and authentically French!) and the food is absolutely on point. The pâté was fantastic - I feel somewhat qualified to judge as I'm half-French and lived in Paris. A lovely, if overpriced, wine selection as well. This is authentic French cuisine! Although I can't say the same for the bread. Where's the real baguette? They should start buying their bread from Almondine. All in all, though, a wonderful place!"
Dined on 2/21/2014
This restaurant was very fancy and
very older in age. My friends and I went here for restaurant and are all in our early 30s and felt incredibly out of place. Everyone was in a blazer and was probably 60yrs or older. None of this would be a problem if we didn't feel as if we were being glared at and if our service was impacted as a result. HOWEVER, that all said, the food was delicious, and their floating island reminded me of my childhood dining out with my Grandparents. Outside of restaurant week it's pretty pricey, but the food seems worth it."
Dined on 2/21/2014
The service & food were top notch.
It became somewhat noisy at times. Well worth the higher than (our) normal dinner out cost."
Dined on 2/20/2014
Dining here is a fine return to
the 70's, with classic French dishes like boeuf bourguinon, pate de campagne with celeri remoulade and ,of course, cornichons, roast chicken, sole meuniere, chocolate mousse, floating island, with elderly waiters scurrying around, serving each course efficiently, and refilling your wine glass just at the right time. This is one of the very few classic French restaurants left in Manhattan, and it's wonderful that it still exists."
Dined on 2/20/2014
Service is very good and the room
is attractive, but the pate appetizer was nothing special, and the boeuf bourguignon was too salty and not nearly as good as I could make at home -- and I'm no cook --I've had much, much better elsewhere. The chocolate mousse was tasty enough, but I've had better, and it was literally only a tiny scoop -- almost comical. There was absolutely nothing that great about the meal -- I'm only glad I paid restaurant week prices. In all fairness my two companions seemed to enjoy their meal -- scallops and chicken, although neither seemed that wild about it. I honestly could not recommend this place. One positive note: The wine glasses were nearly full -- hurrah!"
Dined on 2/19/2014
Went here for Restaurant Week
dinner. I had the pate du chef (excellent), the salmon entree (excellent), and the floating island dessert (fair). The chocolate mousse was also not that good. Service was attentive and friendly. The place was a bit stuffy."
Dined on 2/18/2014
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Hi BryanL,
Thank you for those stats, I never thought of it that way. You made my day! Losing weight and gaining muscle certaintly is not easy. I appreciate your kind words and am excited that I gained 8.6 pounds of muscle!
Warm Regards,
Wow, what a transformation.You must be so proud
Do you know whats even more amazing is that your about to hit 40, you only look in your 20's in your after pic
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needtogetfit, I used EAS Reload to assist with muscle recovery and it worked wonders. I would suggest you click on the right tab of the web sight and find your desired goal (weight loss, build muscle etc) and it will display the appropriate suppliments. I tested my body fat using the hydrostatic method; it is a highly accurate underwater test.
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In the 5th week, I still craved sweets but as my body changed my mind changed as well. I did stop the free day by the 8th week. Now that I have rid my body of sweets and salty food I have no cravings. You have the will and power to change every aspect of yourself. I'm rooting for you!
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In a place known for citrus groves and golf courses, a group of dedicated researchers and ranchers is drawing a road map to success for one of the state's biggest mammals.
For years Florida conservationists have dreamed of creating a wildlife corridor that would link the Everglades-Big Cypress region with Ocala National Forest north of Orlando, and then continue northward to Okefenokee Swamp in northern Florida and southern Georgia. Connecting habitats could expand the range of the Florida panther, the critically endangered eastern form of mountain lion whose population in the state totals only about 120 individuals. And in Cox's view, bringing the southern portion of such a corridor into existence is the best way to save central Florida's black bears, thought to number fewer than 150.
"From a genetic-diversity standpoint, Big Cypress bears are in pretty good shape, because the population is somewhere between 500 and 900 animals," he says. "So it's very critical that those two populations be reconnected in some way for Highlands County black bears' long-term viability."
Still, not even the most optimistic conservationists imagine that a wildlife corridor linking Highlands County to Big Cypress can be created solely on public lands. "We've had such a focus on our pristine public protected areas that it's somewhat diverted attention away from the fact that the working landscape, the farms and ranches, are critical for maintaining habitat connectivity," says Hilary Swain, who is involved in the bear study and is director of Highlands County's Archbold Biological Station, a research center and 5,193-acre nature reserve that bears frequent.
The corridor concept was given a substantial boost in mid-2010, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a new Everglades Headwaters National Wildlife Refuge and Conservation Area that would encompass more than 150,000 acres of central Florida. The new refuge would use a combination of public and private lands to protect native habitats.
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Highlands County straddles the geological feature called the Lake Wales Ridge, a dry, sandy, slightly elevated strip that runs down the middle of peninsular Florida like a backbone. Formed of dunes that, unlike the rest of the state, were never inundated during sea-level fluctuations over the past million-plus years, its nutrient-poor soil supports a specialized flora and fauna that includes dozens of endemic species. Eighty-five percent of the ridge's original habitat has been destroyed. Various private Florida agencies acquired several areas on the ridge--a significant tract is preserved as the privately operated Archbold Biological Station--that could be part of a corridor for black bears and other wildlife.


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Great idea and subject content, except for English Literature. Sorry but this seems to be totally misplaced in what seems to be a forward thinking and highly worthwhile program. In my opinion a course in International relations- how to deal with people from other cultures would be more useful and appropriate in today's world. jcw
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:55:21 UTC | #634260
Wow, where did this come from? In any case, congratulations Richard. Establishing an institution of higher education is a highly worthwhile pursuit. I only urge one word of caution. The article says that finances will not be a barrier to any talented UK student. PLEASE ensure that this is truly the case--I do not know how it is across the ocean, but in the States this is often just rhetoric, and scholarships can be extremely hard to come by, even for students with very high achievements. That said, congratulations again!
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:59:48 UTC | #634261
At those prices we will have an elite of horrible rich kids at the expense of any gifted children. I am very disappointed. Any further education establishment motivated by profit will not get my vote nor approval. Maybe it is more than that. I hope so. Seems like more division of society into those who have and those who don't. Tagging one poor kid onto the four who have rich parents does not seem to me the way forward. Maybe I've read it wrong.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:12:49 UTC | #634269
Congratulations Professor Dawkins and others for this excellent idea. I hope you're able to set up some kind of foundation or trust where profits and donations can go into the pot to invest in creating more humanities colleges and build a kind of momentum. Hopefully, if enough people are able to donate, the charges will come down. Also, I hope that such colleges retain a high reputation which will attract more high quality academics and thus more students and funds in future.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:15:59 UTC | #634270
To be honest, I'm against universities.
If you're serious about learning, then read some books and surf the Web. If you prefer the lecture format, then you can even watch lectures on Youtube. Purely at your own pace, and increasingly you get the best lecturers in the world.
Nowadays most university academics are little better than con artists. They trick employers into valuing degrees as the be-all-and-end-all, even though a cheap and simple aptitude test is better for measuring...well, aptitude. They trick students into paying exorbitant sums of money for lectures which are usually inferior to the material in books, and certainly inferior to the "model lectures" which are rapidly appearing on Youtube.
If Dawkins wants to make real progress, he should be trying to shut the universities down, not opening some more.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:34:06 UTC | #634273
I find I cannot treat this development with anything but disappointment and sadness. I have always been, and remain, a staunch opponent of privatised, plutocratically segregated, education in any form. I think it debauches and prostitutes learning to make it something that the wealthy can access more of than those of lesser means. It is an inherently unfair concept through and through, and one of the greatest contributory factors to social inequality and the perpetuation and widening of the wealth gap between the haves and the have-nots. We should be working towards making top-class education available to everyone, free of charge, and placing the costs on the shoulders of the richest (especially the corporate sector) through much higher taxation on those who can afford it. Like they do in Scandinavia.
And having 20% of the places financially assisted does not adequately address this. That simply creates a two-tier system where the vast majority of applicants, who don't have a spare £100k lying around to pay for three years of tuition and living in London, must fight it out tooth and nail for a fifth of the places, while their filthy rich contemporaries can just get into the remaining 80% anyway. The poorer ones have to fight five times as hard to secure the same thing.
Sure, each application will be considered on merit and the intention will be to only admit the brightest, but that aim is utterly incompatible with charging huge fees and only putting aside 20% of the places for financial assistance. It would only be a fair system if academic ability correlated with parental wealth (which it so obviously doesn't that the mere suggestion it would is actually quite offensive) such that there was a 5:1 ratio of people whose parents could afford the massive fees to people who couldn't within the top-performing academic bracket. In actual fact academic ability is entirely unrelated to parental wealth, and spread evenly across the wealth spectrum.
The mean salary in Britain today is something like £20k. It would be utterly impossible to pay such fees for one's children on that. Even those earning 40k a year (for which it would still be a massive struggle) are in the top 10%. The discrepancy is vast, and very disappointing. Which actually skews the figures even more, since 90% of the applicants will be fighting for 20% of the places, while the wealthiest 10% have free access to the other 80%. That essentially means that someone in the bottom 90% of the national wealth distribution will have to fight 36 times harder for a place than someone in the top 10%.
A project to emphasise good teaching practise is laudable, and I have no problems with the curriculum. But tying it to the sordid, unjust, socially enervating world of private education I find deeply misguided.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:41:24 UTC | #634277
Lawrence M Krauss is one of the academics - nice! :) It sounds like a good idea, but again, seems very elitist and intimidating. I hope the college records the lectures and uploads to iTunes or maybe that nice looking website. All the best with it Richard.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 16:44:54 UTC | #634278
Comment 10 by weesam
I would go further than Cartomancer.
This is a disgrace.
What price an education?
What price to keep the poor uneducated?
Dawkins, you should be utterly be ashamed of yourself. If you consider this a positive, progressive evolution in teaching then you are a disgrace to the teaching profession.
Please reconsider.
Or maybe try teaching some poor kids in inner city schools as well.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:00:04 UTC | #634282
Comment 11 by Ivan The Not So Bad
And here in the Guardian
Comment 8 by Cartomancer
We are better paid than you think but not so much as to invalidate your argument.
On a brighter note, I think the aim of making sure that those studying humanities have a grounding in critical thinking and an appreciation of science and the scientific method is an excellent one. After all, if you look at the make up of Parliament, it's the damn lawyers who are taking over.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:04:35 UTC | #634284
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:05:21 UTC | #634285
I have to agree with other commenters here who can't agree with this based on its cost. The idea behind it is great, but the costs are far too exclusive.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:09:16 UTC | #634287
Comment 14 by weesam
I've been a "fan" of Richard's work since the Growing Up In The Universe lectures. I've read all his books, attended many lectures.
How dare he - how dare he - bemoan the role of religion as a force for keeping down the poor and segregating society and then get involved in such a tacky, ill-conceived and downright disgraceful venture as this? Dawkins doesn't need the money. He could be, and should be, involved in attracting the brightest students into education regardless of cost.
Dawkins on evolution - Survival of the Richest.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:11:28 UTC | #634289
There are two arguments I could just about entertain as to why this project might have some positive value in social and educational terms. I consider it only good practise to rehearse them, given that my heartfelt opposition stems as much from emotional as rational considerations.
First, there's the "working with what we have" argument. It may be terribly naive of me to presume that anything like my preferred, fair, just, socially equal, higher education system will occur in Britain in the next hundred years, and certainly not while those evil Tory bastards still have their suppurating paws on the levers of power. In such a climate, one might argue, is it not better to work with the grain and do some good, rather than spitting into the wind and hoping for reforms that will clearly never happen? Surely the top 10% of the wealth bracket has its share of very bright students, and even if they do have to fight 36 times as hard, so does the bottom 90%. Surely offering at least some of them the chance to experience this newly formulated curriculum, imperfect and unjust though the selection and funding system must necessarily be in the current economic climate, is doing some good in the world? Surely giving at least some section of the population a high quality education where they might not have got it before is better than doing nothing at all?
Which brings us on to the second "trojan horse" type argument, which is to say that this new style humanities curriculum is what the project is really all about, and rather than being an end in itself the New College of the Humanities is merely a test-bed that will hopefully become a beacon to prove that this new way of doing things has tremendous benefits. In ten years, perhaps professor Grayling will be able to point to what has happened there and make a serious case that this kind of teaching should be adopted far more widely. Perhaps a new institution is the only way this could have been effected? Perhaps trying to do it at Oxford or Cambridge or UCL or York or somewhere would have been too difficult, given their already entrenched curricula and institutional frameworks?
I can respect such arguments and the people who make them, although I personally do not see how these proposed benefits could make up for the further entrenchment of plutocratic segregation in our society and the slow creep of corporatised financialism into the education sector. Then again I am very left-wing in my political leanings, and have picked up a considerable personal animus against the British public (i.e. fee-paying) school system and its products from my time at Oxford. So I am undoubtedly biased.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:16:00 UTC | #634290
You can put lectures on Youtube for free. Then they're available to everyone. Widest possible circulation, widest possible good being achieved.
Dawkins has no excuse in this.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:17:36 UTC | #634291
I am completely in agreement with Cartomancer, both in his political position and in everything he says here.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:20:33 UTC | #634293
I really can't agree with the posters above who say why bother with a degree when you can watch YouTube... is Britain really that dumbed down now?
This college is not subsidised, and seems to be charging a fair rate in the circumstances. The fact that a state-funded university is not allowed to charge more than £9,000 a year (to UK students) does not mean that the provision of some courses doesn't cost several times that. Do you want it good or do you want it cheap?
Given the public sector cuts and the general dumbing down of Britain's universities, with arse-end fifth-rate polyversities like Hatfield Polytechnic (as was) now calling themselves the University of Hertfordshire, it is inevitable that some places are going to take a stand for better standards, and that has to be in the private sector.
You are free of course to sit with your head in a bucket and argue that all higher education should, "morally" be free, and until it is you aren't playing. And it's your right to remain uneducated as a result.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:24:28 UTC | #634294
Comment 19 by weesam
I am attending a Dawkins lecture on the 9th June.
I hope I get the chance to raise a question on this.
Cartomancer the "you've got to piss with the prick you are given" argument must never be used.
We should be building a better world. This venture is unacceptable.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:26:32 UTC | #634295
Comment 20 by weesam
Comment 18 by Stevehill : Do you want it good or do you want it cheap?
fallacy. (You sound like some penny-pinching accontant from a Dickens novel).
I want it excellent and free at the point of use.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:29:01 UTC | #634297
This is very disappointing. I am absolutely 100% in favour of discriminating on the basis of intellect in these matters. However, discrimination on the basis of wealth in this fashion is very bad form. I sincerely hope that any profit made by this enterprise is put to good use, perhaps to sponsor poor children from a young age to progress to a quality university.
It would be interesting to hear what Richard has to say about this. Even if there is some pragmatic explanation and benefit will ultimately be done to people who are not rich, I think being involved in this sort of thing sends out a very clear message. What do others think?
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:31:39 UTC | #634298
Comment 22 by AnthropicConstance
Now, now Wilkinson. We will see what good comes out of this that we can access. First it's got to be paid for though.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:32:01 UTC | #634299
Comment 23 by weesam
It sends out the message that Dawkins is plutocratic
Which is priceless ammo for the religious when they set up schools to give the best education they possibly can to the poorest in society.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:35:37 UTC | #634301
I personally do not see what the issue is. I agree that education should be free but this is not a realistic option in the current climate in England. I am from Scotland, where university education is free and I consider that the jewel of Scotland.The USA has NASA, South Africa has wild safaris but free education is what I want to be remembered when people think of Scotland.
However, it's certainly not cheap and costs an eye watering amount. The money must come from somewhere either directly from students or through taxes.
I would also say that watching youtube lectures and reading books is a good way to learn. However attending some type of classroom will help ensure that individuals actually manage to learn what they are suppose to. People learn differently, some prefer reading, working alone or going out in the world to see the art for themselves or to actually experiment with whatever. University is just another method of learning.
This is reality. How many of you paid for your own education?
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:54:21 UTC | #634306
Speaking as a working class lad who left school with no qualifications, and coming from a family where my late father was a painter and decorator and my mother a cleaner, I just don't have a problem with this college. I accept that most of it's patrons will be from the upper echelons and I accept that this is just the way the world is. To be taught be these phenomenal thinkers is likely to make anybody a better rounded, clear thinking individual.
Now I'm off the clean the ferrets.
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:59:51 UTC | #634309
Comment 18 by Stevehill :
I really can't agree with the posters above who say why bother with a degree when you can watch YouTube... is Britain really that dumbed down now?
If you think I'm dumbed down because I learn string theory from Leonard Susskind's Youtube lectures, and learn quantum field theory out of books instead of expensive university classes, then sure. In that case I'm happy to be part of a new, dumbed down Britain.
How do you propose that watching lectures on Youtube is somehow conceptually different from watching lectures in person? Magic?
Well, Your avatar is Harry Potter, isn't it?
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:08:19 UTC | #634311
Comment 27 by weesam
Comment 24 by William33 :
Speaking as a working class lad who left school with no qualifications, and coming from a family where my late father was a painter and decorator and my mother a cleaner, I just don't have a problem with this college. I accept that most of it's patrons will be from the upper echelons and I accept that this is just the way the world is.
spoken like a true serf, "I know my place guvnor"
never mind the ferret, where's the flat cap to doff to the rich boys?
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:09:50 UTC | #634313
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:17:23 UTC | #634314
I agree in Utopia, everything should be free, but unfortunately we don't live in Utopia and won't for a very long time. The problem with living in Utopia, is that it's inhabitants would ALL also share a similar value system and be motivated by being net contributors to society ( welcome to the bee hive or ant colony), but then I suspect we all realize as individuals such a static situation in unlikely to occur and runs counter to our biologically selected attributes that have brought us to where we are now.
So who should pay for tall this free education- surely not the bankrupt state as some suggest.There are enough hangers on who refuse to contribute to society, yet have every opportunity to do so right now. Be pragmatic for a change, recognize Richard and Co are raising the bar in educational standards by offering a course for which there is dire need in today's society that is currently not available elsewhere.
As Cartomancer points out #15, the current established Universities with their entrenched curricula and framework would have little interest in offering something that represents "out of the box" thinking. BY definition such institutions survive on tradition,conformity and the status quo. Throughout the past real changes have come from the "elite" of society. Hopefully this venture will succeed and grow from its humble beginnings financed by the elite to something that will better the lot of all man kind. jcw
Permalink Sun, 05 Jun 2011 18:19:18 UTC | #634317
Comment 30 by weesam
there is what can only be described as a long streak of unctuous obsequiousness.
If such a venture was undertaken by the church there would be outrage.
It's time for some people to quit the Dawkins fawning. It's embarrassing.
Yes, he is one of our brightest public intellectuals. Yes, he has done much for science.
But in this, he is wrong.
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Thanks for the kind words.
In regards to the stats, in Weber's case it really was a toss up between both cats - however you may be right 200+ SOG pace may be for effective than 100+ Blocks. Good eye.
As for Kovy - definitely an oversight. near 300SOG pace is much better than his projected assists. Will be updated in the next edition.
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I think Kovy's SOG were overlooked, usually is near the top in the league in this cat, and would replace his Assist cat with it.
I also would say that Weber's SOG from a D man are worth more than his BS contribution.
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Part 1 – A Gallery of Inventions: Some Lesser Known Firsts from the Ancient Near East.
Part 3 – Tatian, Clement of Alexandria and the Battle for History.
My post from last month highlighting a number of less well known inventions from the ancient Near East proved quite popular, so a sequel is of course forthcoming. Once again, this series avoids covering well known innovations like cities, writing, schools, agriculture and the wheel. Here are some more inventions that you may not know came from the ancient Near East.
1. Investment Banking
Modern banking traces its origins to Babylonian temples in the early 2nd millennium BC. Ancient Mesopotamian temples always had a redistributive economic function. Temples took in donations and tax revenue and amassed great wealth. They then redistributed these goods to people in need such as widows, orphans, and the poor (sometimes the temples became corrupt and hoarded wealth, but that's a topic for another article).
After a thousand years of this, the priests who ran the temples were literally sitting on giant piles of money. So around the time of Hammurabi (in the 18th century BC), they began to make loans. Old Babylonian temples made numerous loans to poor and needy entrepreneurs. The loans were made at reduced below-market interest rates lower than those offered on loans given by private individuals, and sometimes arrangements were made for the creditor to make food donations to the temple instead of repaying interest.[1]
Nevertheless, the temples still lacked many of the features of a full bank. They did not take deposits, issue checks, or engage in fractional reserve banking. They were religious institutions offering loans as a charity service, closer to modern microfinance initiatives than to Goldman Sachs.
Something closer to modern banking emerged in the neo-Babylonian period in the 7th century BC. Banking was conducted by certain families who passed the trade on from parents to children. The Ea-iluta-bani family of the city of Borsippa was active from 687 to 487 BC. Beginning as mid-level land owners possessing several tracts of agricultural land, the men of the family married well, received decent sized dowries, and invested their liquid assets (mostly silver and food products) in loans.
Numerous contract documents have been recovered which list recipients of loans, the amount loaned, the term of the loan and the interest rate to be paid. When the loan was repaid, the tablet was usually broken. This gives us a possibly skewed picture of loans, because the only tablets we can read are from the loans that were not repaid.
What we can tell is that the Ea-iluta-bani family generally loaned at 20% annual interest. In other cases, possibly when the debtor was less reliable, items were taken as security in lieu of interest. If the loan was not repaid, the item would be kept and sold. Sometimes the security was an item that increased in value, such as a slave that could perform service for the creditors for the duration of the loan. This was in effect a disguised form of interest.
The Ea-iluta-bani family tended to make about half of their loans in silver and the other half in food products. There were no coins in use, so silver was measured by weight and purity. Silver had the advantage of having a fairly constant value. Food products on the other hand tended to decrease in value shortly after the harvest time and increase in value during times of the year when they were less plentiful. The family, therefore, tried structure contracts so as to lend out foodstuffs when they were cheapest and get repaid when they were more more expensive, making a greater profit.
Silver, on the other hand, could be loaned out at any time. 80% of our surviving contracts are for periods six months or less, but this may simply indicate that short term loans were less likely to be repaid. The Ea-iluta-bani family women would often loan out their dowry as a long term investment in order to make a steady stream of profit from interest payments.
By the time of the Persian Empire, finance was a major business in the cities Babylon, Borsippa, Sippar, Uruk, Nippur, Uruk, Larsa and Ur. Banking families such as the Egbi in Babylon, Iddin-Nabu of Babylon and Murashu of Nippur became very wealthy and even engaged in international commerce with countries outside of Mesopotamia. The Murashu broadened their investments under Persian rule, in addition to simple loans they branched out into real estate and managed and rented land. Due to their large land holdings, the Murashu family became extremely powerful in Persian-controlled Mesopotamia. They may have become too powerful. All record of their activity ceases after the 10th year of Darius II in 413 BC. Either the records are lost, or Darius moved to end their power.[2]
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In AD 256, the Sassanid Persians under Shah Shapur I laid siege to the Roman border fortress town of Dura-Europos in Syria on the Euphrates River. During the assault, the Persians built several siege ramps. They also dug a number of mines to try and cause the walls of the fortress to collapse.[3]


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This weekend, Sheffield United will take to the pitch at Wembley for their FA Cup semi-final against Hull City as representatives of the third tier of English football. It's uncommon but not completely unheard of for clubs from this level to get this far in the competition, although none has ever made the final itself, with the last club to get this far being...Read More
The memories of football fans, laced as they often are with a solid lack of sentimentality (at least we pretend they are), often leave little room for reminiscing about big money players who should have made it big, but didn't. Believe me, I'm far from alone in this regard. Indeed, I've got the "him? ach, he was rubbish" sneer down to a...Read More
There will be tears at Deepdale this afternoon, of course, and understandably so. After all, the announcement of the death of Tom Finney yesterday at the age of ninety-one has brought the curtain down on one of football's most enduring love affairs, that of the modest player blessed with abilities beyond the reach of all bar a select few and the club that he...Read More
The way that the game is played might have changed, but the rules of football, both on and off the pitch, have proved to be remarkably resilient to change over the years. Although there have certainly been significant changes to the game over the course of the last three or four decades or so – the introduction of the backpass rule, for example, or changes to...Read More
There was a time when it was a sport rather than a merely a business. The scene was Wembley Stadium, on the twenty-ninth of May 1968. In Czechoslovakia, the Prague Spring was in full effect. Just a few weeks previously, Dr Martin Luther King Jr had been assassinated in Memphis, whilst both Paris and London groaned under the weight of student protest against the...Read More
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Seldom has there been one match that has come to define the fortunes of two football nations as appropiately as the afternoon in November 1953 when the Hungarians landed in London. The shock and horror with which the result that afternoon was greeted, however, also indicated the begnning of another trait in the history of the English national team, a brief period of...Read More
The news that ITV will be losing live coverage of the Champions League from the start of the 2015/16 season is a bitter blow to a company that was once the great innovator in terms of the development of football as a medium of entertainment in this country. Coming, as it does, on top of the end of FA Cup coverage on the channel in the near future, only a handful of...Read More


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Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology
- The phonetic motivation for phonological stop assibilation (2004)
- In the following study we present the results of three acoustic experiments with native speakers of German and Polish which support implications (a) and (b). In our experiments we measured the friction phase after the /t d/ release before the onset of the following high front vocoid for four speakers of German and Polish. We found that the friction phase for /tj/ was significantly longer than that of /ti/, and that the friction phase of /t/ in the assibilation context is significantly longer than that of /d/.
- Towards a typology of stop assibilation (2003)
- In this article we propose that there are two universal properties for phonological stop assibilations, namely (i) assibilations cannot be triggered by /i/ unless they are also triggered by /j/, and (ii) voiced stops cannot undergo assibilations unless voiceless ones do. The article presents typological evidence from assibilations in 45 languages supporting both (i) and (ii). It is argued that assibilations are to be captured in the Optimality Theoretic framework by ranking markedness constraints grounded in perception which penalize sequences like [ti] ahead of a faith constraint which militates against the change from /t/ to some sibilant sound. The occurring language types predicted by (i) and (ii) will be shown to involve permutations of the rankings between several different markedness constraints and the one faith constraint. The article demonstrates that there exist several logically possible assibilation types which are ruled out because they would involve illicit rankings.


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